The Gift in the Sh*t

If life is happening for you, not to you, how is the thing that's going on right now that's not the funniest that you would really rather wish it wasn't happening? How could that be happening to you? So for me this morning my car broke down, and I was on my way to exercise, do the lighthouse feeling fresh and feeling good for my body and I could have got really upset and been like, how crap like you know my cars have broken down, I don't get to go walking like I don't get to do what my plan was for the day.

However, I just toddled off and went to a cafe sat down, and because I couldn't get anywhere else, I suddenly had time to focus on something that I wouldn't normally focus on. And I got to think about it, spend some time catching up on stuff that I had let miss, let slide away, and then I got to actually walk home. So I got my exercise anyway and I got some more points of view that I wouldn't have necessarily gotten today.

So perhaps it was perfect that my car broke down, so I had the opportunity to have the space to do something different to have the awareness of different things, and also do this self-inquiry about well how could this be the best thing that's happening to me right now? What if it wasn't that bad? What if there was a gift in this for me for my soul's evolution for me to grow as a person and as a being?

And it got me thinking well yeah all of the tough times that I have had in my life, and I've had a lot, and they haven't been fun at the time, however, what I got from them was incredible and it helped me so much in my life. And a lot of people say that when they go through tough things. It's like the thing that made them and when they've moved through the trauma of it, as in they've moved through the intense anger or grief or whatever the intense feeling is, when that's gone there's actually a new perspective, and you can almost see, ah this has actually helped me to be the person that I am.

I really like who I am right now, so I asked you what's the gift in where you are right now what what have you learned or learning right now, that you wouldn't have learned, necessarily learn before?

Sometimes it can even look like for me, well who did I need to reach out with and connect with in order to move through this process, whatever it is perhaps that was the goal, perhaps I needed to meet that person who introduced me to someone else and that gave me an idea to start a business or perhaps I felt so bad that I reached out and moved through some stuff whether it was with a person, a healer, a coach, a friend, and then that ended up changing my whole direction in life.

Perhaps I needed the universe to show me a sign that what I was doing my way of being wasn't working. So things needed to shut down and not make that way forward accessible. So I really like this perspective of zooming out and starting to question things because I find that in the question I get more self-awareness, more self-knowledge and that inevitably makes me feel really good, and I know that people watching this might be having the worst time and be like, how could you ask that question, like that's the worst, this is the worst thing that's going on and it's terrible and I get it, I really do I've had, I don't know what your situation is, but I've had things that have been so bad.

And sometimes it's hard to have this perspective when you're in it. I totally get it. It's more of a philosophical, if that is the right word, philosophy, question that helps to be out of it, and so that's why when we move through the emotions of things, then we can gain that deeper wisdom.

A thing that I've found that really supported me and still to this day does, supports me and moving through emotions of things so I don't get stuck in it and weighed down, is the emotional freedom technique or tapping, EFT and I’m a practitioner of this, and the reason I'm a practitioner is that it changed my life, and now I do that for other people and support them in moving through whatever that intense emotion is, that's keeping that trauma stuck there and preventing a new kind of awareness. I help release that with people. So yeah, I thought that was a pretty cool thing, a pretty interesting perspective change.

So share below. Do you know what could be the greatest gift about where you are right now?